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Starring Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, et al. Released to DVD on July 18, 2000. ![[Photo]](/photos/angelasashes.jpg) Adapted faithfully from author Frank McCourt's autobiographical work of the same name, Angela's Ashes is the descriptive narrative about McCourt's own childhood during the Great Depression. The movie opens with a young Frank (Joe Breen) living in Brooklyn with his Irish Catholic family. Unable to keep a job, Frank's father (Robert Carlysle) is forced to move the family back to Ireland to be nearer to relatives who can help support them financially. The McCourts' lives are tragic, filled with hunger, subsequent malnutrition, poverty, alcoholism and death. Headstrong and defiant, young Frank refuses to accept his impoverished surroundings, and Angela's Ashes is the extraordinary tale of his rise out of the Irish slums.- Rudee Roth.
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